The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 59
“But I really cannot listen to anything until I have had something to eat,” cried the Prince, who was getting quite angry; but then, remembering that he had better be polite as he much needed the Fairy’s help, he added:
Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: not listen, have, eat, cry, get, remember · To what, where: something, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 listen | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 listen | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 listen | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 listen | advmod |
| 7 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cried | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 anything | case |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 listen | obl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | aux |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 listen | parataxis |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 something | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 added | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 getting | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 getting | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 getting | aux |
| 25 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 Prince | conj |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 27 angry | advmod |
| 27 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 getting | xcomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 remembering | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 remembering | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 remembering | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 remembering | punct |
| 32 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 cried | advcl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 had | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 remembering | ccomp |
| 36 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 polite | advmod |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 polite | cop |
| 38 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 had | xcomp |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 needed | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 needed | nsubj |
| 41 | much | much | ADV | _ | 42 needed | advmod |
| 42 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 polite | advcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Fairy | det |
| 44 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 help | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 Fairy | case |
| 46 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 needed | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 added | nsubj |
| 49 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 50 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 49 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen in a quote | can | the Prince = prince | to anything | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to anything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present · perfect | the Prince = prince | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the Prince = prince not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | past · progressive | the Prince | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | remember | gerund | the Prince not said here | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | past | Prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | infinitive | Prince not said here | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | need | past | Prince | the Fairy's help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 10 | add speech: assert | past | Prince | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | help | the Fairy | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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